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Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/bhalpin/status/1426624257665155079?s=21

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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


These two tweets showed up in this order on my timeline.

https://twitter.com/jamesroque/status/1426803832990826497

https://twitter.com/grapenuts_robot/status/1426914117617598470

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Fluorescein, from utility crews tracing a leak?

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Platystemon posted:

Fluorescein, from utility crews tracing a leak?

That's what they think it is.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1426519418285133824?s=20

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

ok, I don't normally like this guy's stuff but that's a pretty good punchline

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/BonerWizard/status/1426744679731589121?s=20

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


Inceltown posted:

That's what they think it is.

Well I guess they found it

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
https://twitter.com/sheevpaips/status/1426983618224721929?s=21

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/t0paine/status/1426972474034503684?s=21

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/lukeisamazing/status/1427050239563866113

https://twitter.com/Solomosos/status/1426986274339045376

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://twitter.com/madnuhrah/status/1426363396673388547

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!




From that thread

https://twitter.com/LtotheOtotheMAX/status/1426983646016286720?s=19

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
https://twitter.com/puponsecurity/status/1426926355929878535?s=21

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
For that matter, The Conquest of Bread doesn't have any baking tips.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
https://mobile.twitter.com/blainecapatch/status/1426652059680399362

https://mobile.twitter.com/danozzi/status/1424904893215608833

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1427091792751599619

Edit: Wait lol it seems like this was posted in earnest and not a poo poo post?

Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 05:43 on Aug 16, 2021

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

love the state of discourse here and everywhere else atm

anything other than support for the war and occupation is now hating women and supporting the taliban

no nuance shall be given or received, have at u!

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007


Deep loving cut.

wizzardstaff
Apr 6, 2018

Zorch! Splat! Pow!

Regarde Aduck posted:

love the state of discourse here and everywhere else atm

anything other than support for the war and occupation is now hating women and supporting the taliban

no nuance shall be given or received, have at u!

Are you using this tweet as a jumping-off point for a general sentiment about Afghanistan discourse, or do you want people to look at the terf tweet with more nuance?

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



https://twitter.com/ErikPetersen/status/1427059690219859968?s=19

Ellie Crabcakes
Feb 1, 2008

Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

wizzardstaff posted:

Are you using this tweet as a jumping-off point for a general sentiment about Afghanistan discourse, or do you want people to look at the terf tweet with more nuance?
There maybe crossed wires here, because there's just a lot of Afghanistan discourse goin on, but yeah, Aduck, this a terf taking the position that incels and the fuckin Taliban can't be all bad cos hey, they hate trans people too 👍

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Ellie Trashcakes posted:

There maybe crossed wires here, because there's just a lot of Afghanistan discourse goin on, but yeah, Aduck, this a terf taking the position that incels and the fuckin Taliban can't be all bad cos hey, they hate trans people too 👍

oh wow... great way to get people on your side. sounds like a fun crowd of cool people that everyone would want to join.

but what makes the RF part of terf if this person qualifies? she's caricaturing the entire left wing like she's the westboro baptist church or something. isn't a terf supposed to at least pretend an identification with the left?

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

It just kinda became the umbrella term for transphobes because it is fun to say

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

but what makes the RF part of terf if this person qualifies?
Very few TERFs are actually feminists -- radical or otherwise. If that's a deal-breaker, there's always "feminism-appropriating radical transphobes".

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆
Even the ones who don't really care about feminism still like to use the feminist language of privilege and misogyny to attack trans people.

As opposed to the like proper conservative transphobes who just shout "god hates you and wants you to die" at any lgbt person they see. And mostly aren't on twitter

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo
Nobody's going to call them farts stop trying to make it happen.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Beartaco posted:

Nobody's going to call them farts stop trying to make it happen.
I'm fully aware that SWERF 'n' TERF is catchier

But it's worth pointing out in context that they're feminism-appropriating, not radfems.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)
Ah, the "no true feminist" fallacy

some plague rats
Jun 5, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Philippe posted:

Ah, the "no true feminist" fallacy

:dafuq:

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Philippe posted:

Ah, the "no true feminist" fallacy

:dafuq:

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

There is a core of that gang of british terfs that genuinely did come from the radical feminist movement; a bunch of middle-class white cis women who think anything that doesn't benefit middle-class white cis women is an insidious plot to destabilise the Cause.

But most people using their arguments are just garden-variety bigots.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

FFT posted:

I'm fully aware that SWERF 'n' TERF is catchier

But it's worth pointing out in context that they're feminism-appropriating, not radfems.

If we're going to shave that down, I prefer to just call them Plain White TEs.

They're generally dim enough to not get the creepy-rear end tones of Hey There Delilah, so they probably don't hate it as a term.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Cleretic posted:

If we're going to shave that down, I prefer to just call them Plain White TEs.

They're generally dim enough to not get the creepy-rear end tones of Hey There Delilah, so they probably don't hate it as a term.
well they're definitely a natural disaster

stringless has a new favorite as of 11:46 on Aug 16, 2021

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Mak0rz posted:

https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1427091792751599619

Edit: Wait lol it seems like this was posted in earnest and not a poo poo post?

yep, Saira Rao has brainworms the size of loving baguettes

Elman
Oct 26, 2009

Tenebrais posted:

There is a core of that gang of british terfs that genuinely did come from the radical feminist movement; a bunch of middle-class white cis women who think anything that doesn't benefit middle-class white cis women is an insidious plot to destabilise the Cause.

But most people using their arguments are just garden-variety bigots.

I dunno, it doesn't seem that simple. At least here in Spain I feel like a lot of them do come from the feminist side and just happen to be anti-trans people. It's not uncommon to see pro-feminist and anti-capitalist slogans right next to TERF ones.

Basically their point seems to be "sex is biologically determined while gender is an oppressive social construct". They don't have the self awareness to realize trans people suffer from that same oppression, or that their slogan "sex is not gender" is kinda self defeating.

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

Yeah I didn't see that tweet as 'taliban good' but 'taliban bad, and bad happens on basis of physical sex not whatever weird poo poo you leftists think gender is; we are more oppressed'
Even though yknow the taliban would probably just shoot trans people on sight
It's a different flavour of stupidity but I think the distinction is important if you want to counter the argument

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

Killingyouguy! posted:

Yeah I didn't see that tweet as 'taliban good' but 'taliban bad, and bad happens on basis of physical sex not whatever weird poo poo you leftists think gender is; we are more oppressed'
Even though yknow the taliban would probably just shoot trans people on sight
It's a different flavour of stupidity but I think the distinction is important if you want to counter the argument

Meanwhile, iirc in Iran it is Very Illegal to be gay, but the universal healthcare system will pay for sex reassignment surgery, hormones, etc.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

but what makes the RF part of terf if this person qualifies? she's caricaturing the entire left wing like she's the westboro baptist church or something. isn't a terf supposed to at least pretend an identification with the left?

The RF part is largely a legacy thing; the original radfem movement of the 60s/70s was extremely skeptical of transgender identity as part of a broader criticism of gender roles. So transphobes like to cherry-pick arguments from old school radfems in order to claim feminist bona fides, disregarding the context that

1. that was the 70s and feminist thought has evolved since then,
2. gender theory has also evolved since then and many of those arguments were originally a response to the regressive and lovely ideas about gender that were more prevalent in the psychiatric community back then, and
3. radfem critiques about transgender identity are part of a larger critical model of gender that modern transphobes largely reject, outside of the bits that let them heap abuse on marginalized people; many transphobes are happy to celebrate femininity (but only for the Right People) in a way that would disgust the radfems whose arguments they appropriate.

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Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

https://twitter.com/oldfriend99/status/1317457214098018317

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